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Full disk Solar with PST, Glenn C Newell

Full disk Solar with PST

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
Full disk Solar with PST, Glenn C Newell

Full disk Solar with PST

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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I'm slowly working on my Coronado PST, to take full disk Ha Solar images.

I have motorized the focus, and am a good way down the path of motorizing the etalon tuning as well.

I have used the lens from an eyepiece barlow to bring the focal plane up out of the eyepiece holder so I can use an ASI174MM with USB 3 (as opposed to the ASI174mini with USB 2) and arranged the magnification to fill the frame of the ASI174MM. 

I have also included a 4 degree tilt prism (vs. a camera tilter) to eliminate the newton's rings.

Processing wise I am learning how not to oversharpen ;0) and developing my own photoshop technique for compositing the surface detail with the prominence.

All this should come in handy for the upcoming eclipse.

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Full disk Solar with PST, Glenn C Newell